Coach McMahon Named To Durham & Prosser Award Finalist List

Murray State head basketball coach Matt McMahon was a finalist for the Hugh Durham Award and Skip Prosser Award, presented annually by CollegeInsider.com.

In his fifth season, McMahon led the Racers to three-straight Ohio Valley Conference regular season championships and two OVC Tournament championships since 2018. The Racers had another outstanding season in 2019-20 with a 23-9 overall record and a share of the OVC title at 15-3.

A team that featured All-OVC selections, Tevin Brown and KJ Williams, the Racers did many things at a high level in the 2019-20 season. MSU was the 14^th rated defensive rebounding team in the nation (28.41 per game) and 14^th in field goal percentage (.476). MSU was also 40^th in the nation in made free throws (499). The Racers just finished their third-straight season of leading the Ohio Valley Conference in defending the 3-point shot, in which opponents hit just 31 percent.

McMahon's Racers were 15-0 last season at home in the CFSB Center and carry a 21-game win streak 2020-21 season. MSU had an 11-game winning streak for a third-straight season. This has only happened once before in program history. The first was in the 1930's.

The Hugh Durham Award is presented annually to the nation's top mid-major coach. In eight seasons as the head coach at Jacksonville University, Durham became the Dolphins' all-time winningest Division I coach (106 wins), making him the only coach in NCAA history to be the winningest coach (pct. or wins) at three different Division I schools. Durham built national programs at Florida State and Georgia in his career that started in 1959 and lasted until 2005. A native of Louisville, Durham was inducted into the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.

East Tennessee State coach Steve Forbes was named the winner of the 2020 Durham award this week.

Named after the late Skip Prosser, who died suddenly in 2007 while the head coach at Wake Forest, the Prosser award is presented annually to those who not only achieve success on the basketball court but who also display moral integrity off of it as well. Skip Prosser posted a career record of 291-146 in 14 seasons as a head coach at Loyola, Xavier and Wake Forest.

Skip Prosser's son, Mark, the head coach at Western Carolina is the recipient of the 2020 award.

2020 HUGH DURHAM AWARD FINALISTS
Casey Alexander, Belmont
John Becker, Vermont
Randy Bennett, Saint Mary's
Jerrod Calhoun, Youngstown State
Dane Fischer, William & Mary
Steve Forbes, ETSU (AWARD WINNER)
Joe Gallo, Merrimack
John Groce, Akron
Shaheen Holloway, Saint Peter's
Ben Jacobson, Northern Iowa
Chris Jans, New Mexico State
James Jones, Yale
Mike Jones, Radford
Kyle Keller, Stephen F. Austin
Pat Kelsey, Winthrop
Ritchie McKay, Liberty
Matt McMahon, Murray State
Joe Mihalich, Hofstra
Scott Nagy, Wright State
David Patrick, UC Riverside
Mark Pope, BYU
Bob Richey, Furman
Byron Smith, Prairie View A&M
Russell Turner, UC Irvine
Darrell Walker, Little Rock

2020 SKIP PROSSER AWARD FINALISTS
Casey Alexander, Belmont
Steve Alford, Nevada
Chris Beard, Texas Tech
Tony Bennett, Virginia
Jerrod Calhoun, Youngstown State
Tim Craft, Gardner-Webb
Rick Croy, California Baptist
Steve Forbes, ETSU
John Gallagher, Hartford
Greg Gard, Wisconsin
Joe Golding, Abilene Christian
Anthony Grant, Dayton
Chris Holtmann, Ohio State
James Jones, Yale
Greg Lansing, Indiana State
Frank Martin, South Carolina
Ritchie McKay, Liberty
Matt McMahon, Murray State
Joe Mihalich, Hofstra
Steve Pikiell, Rutgers
Mark Prosser, Western Carolina (AWARD WINNER)
Pat Skerry, Towson
Damon Stoudamire, Pacific
Andy Toole, Robert Morris
Russell Turner, UC Irvine

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Coach McMahon Named To Durham & Prosser Award Finalist List

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